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Responsible Government in Britain

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Colonial Self-Government

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The Upper Canadian reformers who during the 1830s sought responsible government were seeking, as historians have since agreed, to gain the established conventions of the British constitution. Some of the reformers, most notably Robert Baldwin, were certainly asking for what they believed to be the British constitution, promised in 1791 and modified by changing conventions. They sought, in respect of all the internal affairs of the colony, a parliamentary executive, instead of an executive council that was remote from the assembly and rarely changed in membership. They expected the governor to exercise a personal discretion in appointing and removing his advisers, whether individually or collectively, so as to keep them in harmony with the assembly. This system the reformers named ‘responsible government’, contrasting the responsibility that they wished members of the government to owe to the elected assembly with the lack of such responsibility in existing practice.3

The most important thing in the history of an empire is the history of its mother country.

Richard Pares1

Parliamentary Government Government … requires requires the powers belonging to the Crown to be exercised through Ministers, who are held responsible for the manner in which they are used, who are expected to be members of the two Houses of Parliament, the proceedings of which they must generally be able to guide, and who are considered entitled to hold their offices only while they possess the confidence of Parliament and more especially the House of Commons.

Third Earl Grey2

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Ward, J.M. (1976). Responsible Government in Britain. In: Colonial Self-Government. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02712-5_6

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